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Hope rises for 3,050mw Mambilla hydro project By Mahmud Jega, Theophilus Abbah & Simon Echewofun Sunday | Publish Date: Jun 20 2017 Hopes that the long delayed construction of the 3,050MW Mambilla hydropower project in Taraba State will resume soon were raised yesterday when a ‘No Objection’ certificate from the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) landed on the desk of Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Raji Fashola.  The minister, who granted an exclusive interview to Daily Trust yesterday, said with the no objection certificate’s arrival, the ministry was ready to go forward and seek the Federal Executive Council’s [FEC] approval for the contract to be awarded. Fashola said, “It is good you mentioned Mambilla. The ‘No Objection’ for Mambilla just came into my office today [Monday]. It is still on my desk. These are all of the bureaucratic processes of getting things done in government.” Displaying the docume...

Current national concern on Grazing Reserve (gr): A misunderstood pastoral development By Prof. Saka Nuru | Publish Date: Jun 4 2017 2:00AM From the inception of President Muhammad Buhari’s administration and with the escalating number of conflicts between arable crop farmers and pastoralists, a lot has been said and written by stakeholders and news media, giving a wrong impression that majority of Nigerians don’t know about pastoral system and what is even worse, they have very little idea about the federal government’s effort since the 1960’s to data, to resolve the conflicts. In actual fact, President Muhammad Buhari was Chairman for “Maiduguri Conference in Enhancing peaceful co-existence in Nigeria” organized by Centre for Peace, Research and Conflict Resolution of the National War College in 1998. It was round table session on pastoralist/farmers conflicts and on national borders security. Recommendations were made but were they implemented? ...

Nigeria Health Jobs Field Laboratorian,  African Field Epidemiology Network, Lagos, deadline 15th May 2017.  Details here Midwife Supervisor,  Medecins Sans Frontieres, Borno, deadline 5th May, 2017.  Details here Midwife,  Medecins Sans Frontieres, Borno, deadline 5th May, 2017.  Details here Sabbatical Attachment for University Lecturers,  Shell Nigeria, deadline 28th May, 2017.  Details here Challenge TB Country Director,  KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, Abuja, deadline 12th May, 2017.  Details here Clinical Care Specialist,  Management Sciences for Health, Niger, deadline 14th May, 2017.  Details here Laboratory Systems Specialist,  Management Sciences for Health, Kebbi, deadline 7th May, 2017. Officer, Health Worker,  Society For Family Health, Gombe, deadline 5th May, 2017.  Details here Obstetrician & Gynaecologist,  Newgate Medical Services Limited, deadline 30th June, 2017.  Details ...

PMB and Southern Kaduna Crisis You can see the difference.... Jonathan kept quiet as Muslims were massacred in Southern Kaduna. Governor Yakowa said nothing. As God would have it, both the governor and the Commissioner of Police who oversaw the 2011 massacres would die violently in different plane accidents after their Pyrrhic victory. (The CP who was transferred from Benue just before the elections was rewarded with a promotion to DIG (operation) after the killings. It took just some few months before his helicopter crashed in Jos). Allah ba azzalumi ba ne. Earlier, Obasanjo had allowed the Plateau massacres to go on with the military drafted each time only after the damage is done. No culprits were ever arrested. Instead, they enjoyed government sponsorship and protection even when they could be identified in pictures and videos. Jos started enjoying some level of peace only after late President Yaradua ordered a permanent presence of the military on the streets of the capital. An...

2 ) It appears at eight different places. If we consider these words separately, then the word “KUN” (only) has been appeared two times and the word “FAYAKUN” (only) has been used one time in Quran Majeed. Out of the eight aya, the phrase “KUN FAYAKUN” has been used at the end of aya in seven aya while in one aya (Sura Al-An’aam, Sura # 6, Aya # 73) it is used in almost the middle of the aya. You may see through the study of this phrase that it appears mostly in the context of creation. While speaking these words, it takes almost 1 second and if we speak the word “KUN” alone, it takes nearly 0.24 seconds. It would be interesting to know that average human blinking span is very close to this time that has been reported to be in the range of 0.1-0.4 seconds. ALLAH has used this phrase three times in the context of the Hazrat Isa (A.S.) [Jesus] i.e. in Surah Aal-i-Imran two times and one time in Surah Maryam , as follows; ...

THE FULANI MARAUDERS AND THE MARAUDERS OF SOUTHERN ZARIA....THE WAY OUT. It said that Fulanis originated from Misra, Egypt. They were living within the vicinity of the Mount Sinai (Thuri sinin) in the present day Egypt before their migration to different parts of the world in the pursuit of livelihood. From Egypt to Morocco to Senegal to Niger and Nigeria and other parts of the world. This is just one version of historical background of their origination and migration. There are other versions too. They are scattered across the African countries like Nigeria, Niger, Mali, Guinea, Chad, Cameroon and beyond. Some of them, like us, have since settled in towns and cities, abandoned their tradition of living in the bushes rearing their animals. They are now called Hausa/Fulani due to the long interaction and intermarriage with Hausas. Even before the advent of colonialists, Fulani were well organised and advanced with a civilised system of administration after the jihad of Sheikh Usmanu D...

If the recommendation of the Senate Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution is accepted by the House of Representatives and assented to by President Muhammadu Buhari, the state joint local government account will be a thing of the past. The abolition of the state joint local government account is one of the highlights Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, presented to the Senate Thursday. Ekweremadu also said that the Senate constitution committee adopted the recommendation to create a mayoral seat for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja. He noted that the committee, inaugurated on 13th January, 2016 had a clear mandate to reprocess the aspects of the Fourth Alteration Bill that had gained national consensus and enjoyed huge good-will from the general public, states, non-governmental organizations and international development organizations. On local government administration, Ekweremadu said that Section 7 of the Constitution was amended essentially to s...